May 20, 2019 When you search in Outlook 2016 for Mac or Outlook for Mac 2011 on Mac OS X, be aware of the following: Mac OS includes Spotlight Search. Mac OS controls the indexing of the hard disk for Spotlight Search. Both versions of Outlook for Mac rely on Spotlight Search to provide search results for Outlook data.
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- Nov 04, 2019 Microsoft is bringing some much-needed improvements to its Outlook for Mac app. Starting this week, Outlook for Mac beta testers (in the Fast Ring) will be able to.
- Dec 23, 2018 Hello Ryan, Thanks for your post in the forum. Regarding to the searching problem, it is suggested to download Outlook Search Repair tool and follow the prompts to rebuild the index. If the issue persists, please contact the in-app support for further assistance. We have dedicated support channel for this kind of problems and they will help you further on it.
You may need to rebuild a mailbox to update the list of messages it contains. For example, if messages appear to be missing or garbled, or if you can’t find all relevant messages when you search using the Entire Message search option.
- In the Mail app on your Mac, select a mailbox in the sidebar.
- Choose Mailbox > Rebuild.
When you rebuild mailboxes for IMAP or Exchange accounts, messages and attachments stored on your computer are discarded, and then downloaded again from the mail server to your Mac. Your mailbox appears empty until the download is complete.
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